This time round when I went back to Hwa Chong, the people from my batch were, of course, scarce. Yet, the interesting thing about this year’s MAF was that I am meeting a different set of people. The usual suspects were actually absent from this event. 

I bumped in Chong Yao (&GF), Dan Tong, Edward, Wanqing, Sunny, Ying Shan (&hubby), Lin Ying, Mr Choe (who has left the school for “greener” pastures), Mrs Ang (as always).

The Grand Light up was phenomenal. The laser effects, the lighting were all new stuff which were not present before hand. They finally changed the water pumps and the fountain was great. There was even a bubble machine. =) The wall was no longer a wall, but an interesting creative piece – beautiful.

Unfortunately, the rain came and the party was shifted to the hall. The feeling was down a little, but everyone was clearly enjoying themselves with the song and dance session. (Edward and Wanqing … applause … still can remember most of the moves!)

The rain persisted and I was stuck in Hwa Chong, so near to home, yet so far … Thanks to Edward who kindly dropped me off at my place. =)

Hope everyone is having a good weekend!

Had a post-birthday celebration for chin hong. It was long time coming. (Gosh! Chin, that was really an expensive watch that you treated yourself to.) Had a nice Japanese dinner at Oriental Hotel (There’s this 1 restaurant at Great World City which was loads better), and then PIGGED out with Hagen Daiz Ice Cream. There goes dieting for the month.

My HYP Prof back in SoC, NUS had also organized a gathering back in NUS, at the new SoC (Old Law Library) and I went back to catch up with the whole generation of students that Prof Leong had taught. Good to see many of them again. Those who were at that time mugging to complete the HYP and make it through the course. =) Good luck to Francis and KetFah in completing their PHD soon.

Evening was a back at Hwa Chong for the Students’ Coucil Reunion. It was a huge event held at the hall and we have Students Council batches that went back to the 1st batch. Amazing! It was good catching up with many people and you realized that many of them are getting married. Congrats to all! Many of them are also in very interesting places and going places. those not present were obviously out there in busy with busy people things. (“,)

Sunday was a rest day for me, after all the taxing get together and mingling and socializing. I’m beat from all that. Did anyone notice how the weather is so hot these few days?!

Have a good week to all!

Went back this year for MAF again and was quite disappointed to see so little people from the 98 batch, especially so from my class and the 25th SC.

Stay for the entire session, but since there really wasn’t much people there, it wasn’t too much of a catch up session. I did see Stella and her little baby … so cute … can’t believe she’s already a mother! Which reminds me how old we are already .. we are 9 years after graduation from HJC. Oh yes, it’s Hwa Chong Institution not .. HCI … hmm …

Went to Old Horse Shoe for a drink with dantong and erbin after MAF and was quite an interesting chit chat session. About working overseas and how being overseas was good. Oh well, I’m here in Singapore as part of a long term plan lah …

Anyway, it’s nice to go back every year to just see how the school has changed and how the younger generation are like.

Nonetheless, I am thrilled.

I got an A for my Honours Year Project.

A big thank you to my supervisor, my family and my friends for their guidance, support and encouragement.

The paper today was similar to last years and the year before, etc … If only I knew the answers, but there were never any model answers. No one will ever know if they were really correct or not. Who cares! As the prof said, for some of you this will probably be the last time you will be hearing the “statement” for the exam. =)

Bags … I saw this nice laptop bag … it was a Braun Bauffel .. it cost $300++ … I next saw this MandarinaDuck bag, which I thought would be cheaper, but it cost $387 … faints. Can’t expensive stuff stay away from me! Just let me like cheap stuff, can!

It’s my mum’s bday tmr. Time to eat, watch movie and get FAT! =)

I must thank the Lord again today for the brilliant planning done by Him. Well, so far so good, cos’ all the timings for the plans appear to fall nicely into place. Now, the whole settings has been laid, and the environment favours me. I need to get the prize. With so many people helping and assisting me on this, I really hope and pray that it will come true soon. Yet, I know what time is not something I should hurry, but I should let it happen and when it does the Lord’s victory will be even sweeter. Ha!

Ok, there’s a question in tmr’s paper that I don’t know how to do. How I know? Cos’ it seems like the papers for each semester have exactly the same question style. So how to solve, waiting for a friend to help. Hurry, leh! (If you reading my blog and never tell me the answer yet, I kick you ah!)

ok, back to figuring it out …

Darn! You mean I actually have to find a job?

Right!

Ok, I shall do what I must.

My compiler project with my friend got an “Excellent” grading. Yea! Happy! BUT, dunno how many excellents he gave in the entire class. So, can’t tell our standing. But I’m still happy!

I think I might be bad with purchasing things. I buy then I get 2nd thoughts. This feeling sucks!

Ok, everyone around me seems to have completed their exams. I’m gg to be next. Just you wait. It’s 6 Dec 2006, at 3 pm. I will be done. Done! DONE!

My ammunition have all been loaded and fired. I pray that it hits the targets.

Had my 1st paper for this semester this morning and it was OK. Not too tough, neither was it too easy. Just managed to complete the paper 15 mins before the end of the paper. Looks like the Prof really planned and strategize how to make sure we use all the time in the exam. Heard some people could not complete the paper. Don’t worry lah … we all end up on the curve at the end of it.

Anyway, I have no stress cos’ I know that moving up a notch in my honours is almost impossible. I would require A for everything HYP, my 2 modules before I just hit the next honours with 0.01 to spare. It’s that close and possibly, to be practical, rather impossible. So, I just study as hard as I can, understand as much as I can and do as well as I can. No stress! In fact, I like this feeling a lot.

Stress free studying!

Went to VIVO to shop after the paper. Needed to de-stress, and I think I DID!

The Food Republic there has a lot of food! Apparently, they are famous food from the different places. They had Thunder Tea Rice, which I failed to interpret as Lei Cha until much later so did not have a try. But, I’m sure, cannot beat somebody’s home cook version.

Topshop, Espirit, , ZARA, G2000, I vote my favourite store as GAP, followed by G2000. Enough said. The clothes at Topshop looks good only on the models, and maybe they only suit the Europian cut. Just don’t like their designs. Zara is nice and pro but rather dull at times. Espirit tries to be too funky or it just becomes too plain. G2000 is simple work attire. GAP seems the most informal, yet the casual feel about it is very nice.

Page One … found my Dubai guidebook “Time Out Dubai”. There were 3 to choose from, the Lonely Planet, Footprints and Time Out. Chose Time Out in the end cos’ it looked the most comprehensive and yet had a snap shot of other parts of the UAE which would probably be of interest – Abu Dhabi. Now, is to think how to cram all that ‘touristy’ thingy in the few days that I have there.

Was tempted to get the 1 GB thumb drive, for only 53.90, but I realized that as much as it was good to have, I didn’t urgently need a 1GB thumb. So, that shall wait, until the 2GB thumb prices drop and I get it even cheaper. =)

Finally had my coffee bean and carrot cake. No free wireless, unfortunately. So only typed out emails which I wanted to send. Spent like a while drafting them out. Is my English getting bad?! Whatever! I got my plans, but it’s like an If-Else condition. For now, I’m banking on the IF. Let’s hope I don’t get proved wrong. ==

Next stop, ended up at Orchard Cineleisure. Went to the Apple Store. Nope, not to complain about my iPod again. I gave up on that. If it works it works, if it doesn’t then I just pray about it, coax it, abuse it until it works properly again. I wanted to get a case for for the new iPod Nano. Wanted the plastic case from Marware, but could not find it. So, ended up getting another version, which I think is better and possibly cheaper cos’ less moving parts means less tendency to spoil. BUT, I saw a faint scratch in the front after I was on my way home. Sighs! Too much hassle to change. Lucky it’s only seen in bright light. Which is seldom the case.

Wanted to get a nice, formal and stylish bag for my Mac, but I realize that there does not exist one in the whole of Singapore and possibly the world. I have searched online, searched the shops, but there isn’t one that looks small, stylish, formal and cool. Sighs! I shall wait.

Just as I shall wait for a nice Swatch skin model to come out to replace my RIP one. I did ask the guy if I could get one similar in face and then get them to switch the strap for me. No problem. This I shall consider further.

Ok, I’m just in a weird mood, saw some people with those nice Havanna sandals and I really liked it, but at the shop at Heeren, there was only the few colours that I knew were too flashy for my liking and won’t match with anything at all. All I want was simple black. Well … I can’t have everything can I?

Hmm … looks like my ‘Wishlist’ or ‘To buy’ list just got a little shorter, but seems long still … I need to get out of Singapore. Prevent me from shopping. I know overseas, I do not like to swipe card so I have less cash to play with … haha!

Hehe … have a good weekend all. I am looking forward to Saturday … KL here I come.

Stayed at home today, cos’ tmr’s the paper and I didn’t feel like travelling to school. Travelling takes me almost 2 hours both ways. Quite a lot of time, if you really think about it, and considering that I live so near school. (Blame it on the transportation system, la)

Studied compiler in the morning, as I had enough of HW/SW … after lunch then decided to flip through my notes for HW/SW again, since it is tmr. It’s been a long day.
After tmr, I will be half way through. Phew!

Hahaha! Looking forward to the weekend to KL. Also, looking forward to the Dec trip.

It’s always nice to be looking forward to something. It lifts the soul and brightens the day.

I think I can’t do very much more within the next 2 days to improve the situation. I think I have covered most ground and everything seems in order.

So, I shall not stress myself out, but just slowly look through my notes again and spot any thing which I had missed out.

I think few hours of Spinelli does help in the end.